There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.
Dick Cheney

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Dante Alighieri

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
George Herbert

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
Paul Lynde

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
John Donne

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.
Jose Mourinho

I lost $35,000 in less than a week at the Mirage in Las Vegas.
Dennis Rodman

It is only when parental feelings are ineffective or too ambivalent or when the mother's emotions are temporarily engaged elsewhere that children feel lost.
Anna Freud

Children usually do not blame themselves for getting lost.
Anna Freud

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.
Jesse Jackson

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.
Samuel Johnson

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.
Samuel Johnson

It is better to have loafed and lost, than never to have loafed at all.
James Thurber

I lost some of my friends because I got so famous, people who just assumed that I would be different now. I felt like everyone hated me. That is the most unhappy time of my life.
Haruki Murakami

Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
Quentin Crisp

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert

Most of my life I've had long periods of feeling down and lost. That's why every five years or so I've smashed my life to pieces and started again.
Siobhan Fahey

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.
Norman Mailer